Chill Desserts

These frozen treats will tempt you to skip your entrée entirely.

Half Moon’s take on the ice cream sandwich is much tastier than the Good Humor Man’s.

Forget those ice-covered, high-fructose, syrup-laden ice-cream desserts in the supermarket’s frozen-foods aisle and try a creamy, cool concoction from one of these restaurants.

Bistro Citron (2 Weaver St, Scarsdale 914-574-5564). Apple tarts and profiteroles get their own à la mode scoops of vanilla here. As the summer develops, so will other house-made concoctions, such as cinnamon, mint vanilla, and mango and peach sorbet.

Half Moon (1 High St, Dobbs Ferry 914-693-4130). You won’t find this eatery’s version of the ice cream sandwich in any cafeteria. Stacks of crumbly phyllo, not graham crackers, sandwich vanilla ice cream and fresh fruit. Then whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and raspberry sauce top it all off.

John-Michael’s (100 Titicus Rd, North Salem 914-277-2301). Go nuts and order JM’s double pecan dessert: butter pecan ice cream with spiced pecan crumble and a drizzle of caramel sauce. It’s a summertime special, as is his PB&J: peanut-butter mousse with homemade grape-jelly ice cream. The Concord grapes come right off the vines out in front of the restaurant.

Sonora (179 Rectory St, Port Chester 914-933-0200). Churros, the elegant Latino cousins of donuts and fried dough, are gilded here with chocolate and blackberry dipping sauces and a mound of dulce de leche ice cream. Chef and owner Rafael Palomino helped make that luscious ice-cream flavor a hit from the get-go.

Zephs’ (638 Central Ave, Peekskill 914-736-2159). Get abducted by Zephs’ “flying saucer,” made with homemade banana ice cream sandwiched between fudge cookies. There are often other cool and creamy homemade ice creams on this original list: licorice, malted vanilla, mint chocolate chip, and dulce de leche.